The Rebbe Rashab - Hemshech 5672 Part 4

00:00 The hemsach in continuation to the earlier installments in regards to the Rebbe Rashab, and in particular, Benigea, to the hemsach Ayin Beis, referring to the sequence of my modem discourses which the Rebbe Rashab delivered beginning from Shmuis 1912 and continued for the next three and a half years. We continue now with installment number 11, where we will discuss a sicha that the Rebbe spoke to Chassidim on the 20th of Kislev Tov Shin Lametzayon, late 1976. This is 45 years ago. The Rebbe introduces the topic as follows. There is a inyan which makes me feel uneasy for many years. And the Rebbe explains, there is the hemsach of Tov Rishayim Beis, which is the name of the year in English, 1912, or as Chassidim refer to it, Telav, by switching around the letters of how it is written. Instead of Tov Rishayim Beis, it is written in a more positive note, Telav, Tov Ayin Rish Beis, which the Rebbe Rashab was very involved in it with great energy and a large section of this hemsach, of this sequence, he divided into chapters and he also made synopsises of the chapters. When my father-in-law, who was the successor of his father, the Rebbe Rashab, left town, he went on a trip. He needed to make sure that the Svarim and primarily the Ksavim, the manuscripts of the Rebbeim, are kept safe. So he was looking for someone who he could rely on that he can give it to him and that it should be kept safe and

02:17 to be sure that he will get it back. Bishlim was complete, intact. So it seems like the Rebbe says that he didn't have any other choice and he left it by me. There is a din in Shulchan Aruch in Cheshe Mishpat, which are monetary laws, that when one person gives something to another person to keep for him for a specific time, the person who is the one that's watching it during this specific time needs to return it complete. Then there's a question, Alacha Benigea, a talus that he gave to someone to watch for him, if he's permitted to use the talus in the time that this talus is in the domain of the person who is watching it for the owner. Likewise, there's a question, Benigea, to Svarim. A person is giving Svarim to someone else. Is the person who is watching the Svarim permitted to learn in them? So it's mentioned in Alacha that if a person has given Svarim to a Talmud Chacham, so he already knows from ahead of time that the Talmud Chacham will not be able to hold himself in and he will study in the Svarim. So Benigea, this was also included in the giving of the Pikadon, knowing that the Talmud Chacham will be learning in the Svarim. Therefore, he is permitted to study in the Svarim. Alacha Benigea to our case. Likewise, in our case, it's not so negea the greatness of a Talmud Chacham becholo. It is only negea here. What's pertaining is the fact that

04:26 he is suspicious. He could be suspected that he will be learning in the Svarim. And already over the many years during the lifetime of my father-in-law, I was suspected that if I will receive a ksav, a manuscript, and especially a ksav which Alacha Benigea in this case, likewise, likewise in this case, it's not so significant the greatness of a Talmud Chacham, but basically that it is something that the Talmud Chacham could be suspected that he will study in the Sefer. And already from many years during the lifetime of the previous Rebbe, the Rebbe continues, I was suspected that if I am given a manuscript, and especially a manuscript that Hasidim do not have, I will surely make a copy of it. The mele it's understood that when somebody gives a Sefer to a Talmud Chacham, it is already included that that person will learn in it. Alacha Benigea when the person gives a ksav, a manuscript to someone who is suspected that he will make a copy. Likewise, when one loans a manuscript to someone who is suspected that he may make a copy, and this is not a suspicion that doesn't have any substance in it, but rather a legitimate suspicion with proof from the past what took place in a practical sense. The mele when the person gave it, he already knew that probably this person who he's giving it to will make a copy, or as it is referred to now, a photostat. And that is actually what happened. I didn't think

06:43 into this matter too much. Now, beshas I found that amongst the inyanim that I received is also this hemsach, the hemsach Ayin Beis. I immediately, before having any thoughts about it from any perspective, the first thing I did was I made a copy. And this is found by me till this very day. We will, imirtzesem, continue in the next installment.